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It's already an information overload. It would be nice to have more options on what information to show.
Sometimes I need to see street names and house numbers, sometimes I need to see the name of the burger place, but I don't ever need to see the name and ratings of each and every hotel and coffee shop in a 10 km radius.
It also ought to figure this out by itself. It already knows if I'm on foot, driving or using public transport. It already knows if I'm in my local area or traveling on the opposite side of the globe. They also know if I'm using the app for navigation or just browsing the map of distant places compared to my actual location.
They have so much data but still can't figure out to show relevant information.
Especially since they started showing advertised businesses to me on the map. I've never been to a McDonald's, Google, and I know you know this about me so stop preferentially showing them when I pan around my map!
Also please let me filter my search results. When I search "coffee shop" it'd be nice not to have to scroll past all the starbucks and gas stations to find small businesses.
Probably because all information changes I've notes in the last few years have nothing to do with improving information access and all to do with monetizing it.
Google used to make good software that they could monitize with ads. Now they build their apps to sell ads.
Yes. The product was good and the ads surrounded it. Ow the ads is the purpose and things are designed around that. Not just with googlez but all companies.
There is a serious problem with commerce and friction in payments when most companies that are valuable in the last 20 years don't have a product but help people to find a product already available.